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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Upon becoming Honeywell’s CEO in 2002, he encountered an organization on the verge of failure, thanks to years of untrammeled short-termism.

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Embrace Your Constraints to Create New Markets

Harvard Business Review

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. As they scaled this project, they worked on efficiency, operations and reducing overhead to achieve a true innovation: something that changed the lives of millions while achieving profitability.

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The Book That Will Change Your Travel Life

CO2

An interview with Nicholas Kralev, author of Decoding Air Travel: A Guide to Saving on Airfare and Flying in Luxury. About the Author: Nicholas Kralev is a writer, educator, and speaker on global travel, diplomacy, and international affairs. Describe what it means to Decode Air Travel? The last time I flew in coach was 2002.

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What the Mission to Mars Shows About India’s Innovators

Harvard Business Review

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Constraints need not be limiting.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. We all "buy" consulting so if coaches just want to transact they just need to market and burnish their brand. Ultimately, I agree with Peter.

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